Re: [PATCH V2 5/7] cpufreq: Merge cpufreq_offline_prepare/finish routines

[Viresh Kumar]

On 03-02-16, 12:21, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 06:02 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> >The offline routine was separated into two halves earlier by
> >'commit 1aee40ac9c86 ("cpufreq: Invoke __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish()
> >after releasing cpu_hotplug.lock");.
> >
> >And the reasons cited were, race issues between accessing policy's sysfs
> >files and policy kobject's cleanup.
> >
> >That race isn't valid anymore, as we don't remove the policy & its
> >kobject completely on hotplugs, but do that from ->remove() callback of
> >subsys framework.
> >
> >These two routines can be merged back now.
> >
> >This is a preparatory step for the next patch, that will enforce
> >policy->rwsem lock around __cpufreq_governor() routines STOP/EXIT
> >sequence.
> 
> Is this stale text? Seems like this is now done in the *previous* patch?

No, the previous patch has fixed a single location only. The next
patch tried to fix others as well.

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viresh